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Posted by Otto Allmendinger on 10/01/13 11:17
simon wrote:
> He was asking about passwords. Almost every site that is md5() only
> compare the hash as they cannot compare the string.
> So, technically, given a hash key you can get a string. In turn that
> string would match the hash and give you access.
I don't quite agree. If the hash isn't generated by the string itsself, but
by a slightly alternated version of it, like md5(string.'extra'), the
attacker would find a string y with md5(y)==hash, but not one with
md5(y.'extra')==hash.
I think this is a very simple way to make a authentication routine more
secure.
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